Computer Science

Richard "Rick" Watson, the co-leader of a nonprofit effort to produce free electronic and print textbooks for students in the developing world, visited Elon on Monday to share his vision and to seek partnerships at the university with which to expand the Global Text Project.

Computing sciences faculty member Joel Hollingsworth will lead two Elon teams to compete in the regional phase of the world's most prestigious computer programming competition. Fourteen colleges and universities will compete in the regional contest Oct. 25 at Duke University.

An Elon faculty member has been awarded storage space on a selective, federally funded computer server where scientists conduct research that requires vast amounts of electronic file space and computing capability.